T-rump's stock market track record just can't compare to Obama's

On Saturday, T-rump warned of dire consequences to the stock market ("It's going to crash, my fellow T-rumpanzees!") should he not be re-elected in 2020. Looks like it's a chance that most Americans are eager to take, as he's slagging in every poll - including his in-house polling.

Still, what's more mind-boggling is the fact that he's been to blaming the Fed over interest rates for keeping the market from booming, yet takes no responsibility for screwing with the markets with his trade wars.

Said T-rump this weekend, “The Trump Economy is setting records, and has a long way up to go….However, if anyone but me takes over in 2020 (I know the competition very well), there will be a Market Crash the likes of which has not been seen before! KEEP AMERICA GREAT.”

However, Bloomberg’s Roz Krasny had something else to add to his self-congratulations.

“Research by Macrotrends shows the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s performance so far in Trump’s term has been middling compared with his predecessors, and trails the gains made under Democrats Barack Obama and Bill Clinton,” she pointed out.

To see just how T-rump compares to Obama - and even Bill Clinton - in stock market performance, click here (Warning to T-rumpanzees: this is real truth, not alternate truth.)

— Jay Carney (@JayCarney) February 5, 2018
Except he did. A social media user screen shotted a relevant excerpt from a transcript of an interview Obama did with ABC's David Muir in 2011, where the president was happy to talk about the increased value of stocks under his watch. The transcript can be found on his archived White House website.

Passage of Clinton budget bill in 1993 "led to an enormous flowering of the economy in America."

— Bill Clinton on Sunday, April 18th, 2010 in an interview on ABC's This Week
Asked by Tapper, "Politically does this year remind you of 1994?" Clinton responded, "A little bit. We passed the bill which reversed trickle-down economics by one vote. (It was) close like the health care bill (this year). And it led to an enormous flowering of the economy in America."

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Still, what's more mind-boggling is the fact that he's been to blaming the Fed over interest rates for keeping the market from booming, yet takes no responsibility for screwing with the markets with his trade wars.

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